democrats and rural america problemhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2018-1-14-democrats-and-rural-america-problem.html
<p>Democrats are seriously missing the mark on their issues management with rural, "conservative", voters. I've lived in Western rural areapolitics2018-1-14Scala Mill Worked Examplehttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2018-05-03-Scala-Mill-Worked-Example.html
<p>Earlier this year Mill, a new Scala build tool, was released. It seemed pretty nifty - SBT has been very heavyweight and tends to be <emcoding and software2018-05-03Ruminations On Obama Portraitshttp://pnathan.com/blog/observations-on-art/2018-02-12-Ruminations-On-Obama-Portraits.html
<p>The Obamas unveiled their portraits today. </p><p>It's a fun moment, when the nation is talking about 2 paintings. And, as a painter, I fobservations on art2018-02-12sept 30 saturday evening briefinghttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-30-sept-30-saturday-evening-briefing.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 12:48 PM in Pyongyang<br />
</p><p>October 10 is the founding day of the ruling party of Korea; October politics2017-9-30saturday morning briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-30-saturday-morning-brief.html
<p>Good morning. It is 11:34 in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>The NY Times reported that IUS Secretary of State Tillerson admitted the US has sevepolitics2017-9-30friday night briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-30-friday-night-brief.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 2:34 in Pyongyang, and 11PM in Seattle. I hope everyone reading this is having a reasonably pleasant andpolitics2017-9-30friday morning summaryhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-29-friday-morning-summary.html
<p>Good Morning this Friday!<br />
</p><p>It is 12:27 a. m. in Pyongyang<br />
</p><p>From the "more reputable sources" section of Twitter..politics2017-9-29dprk morning briefinghttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-28-dprk-morning-briefing.html
<p>Good morning<br />
</p><p>It is 11:41 PM Seoul Time<br />
</p><p>US &amp; Japanese forces are doing tactical training together, accordingpolitics2017-9-28dprk evening briefing_28http://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-28-dprk-evening-briefing_28.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 2:26 PM in Pyongyang right now.<br />
</p><p>Flipping through my copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica on politics2017-9-28dprk noon briefinghttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-27-dprk-noon-briefing.html
<p><em>Your noon summary of what I'm seeing...</em><br />
</p><p>It is 3:27 AM in Seoul.<br />
</p><p>Some claim Warmbier was tortured. It hpolitics2017-9-27dprk morning briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-27-dprk-morning-brief.html
<p>Morning round-up.<br />
</p><p>It is now 1:30 AM in Seoul<br />
</p><p>US looking at deploying resources to South Korea later this year opolitics2017-9-27dprk evening briefinghttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-27-dprk-evening-briefing.html
<p>Good evening. </p><p>It is 9:06 AM in Seoul as I write this.<br />
</p><p>Warmbier was well cared for after an incident that caused brainpolitics2017-9-27dprk noteshttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-26-dprk-notes.html
<p><em>Notes taken over the last 12 hours.</em> Future updates will come in on blogger and be cc'd to mastodon. <br />
</p><p>That's weird. politics2017-9-26stand in solidarity with your societyhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-9-25-stand-in-solidarity-with-your-society.html
<p>One big thing I argue for repeatedly on the Mastodon fediverse is to not disengage from the social systems and big institutions. They arepolitics2017-9-25noelle on nazishttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-6-20-noelle-on-nazis.html
<p><em>pnathan: This is from @noelle@mastodon.social. This is a good write up.</em><br />
</p><hr/><p>I wrote this a while ago, but it's stipolitics2017-6-20saturday night briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-7-saturday-night-brief.html
<p>Evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 12:37PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>Trump's been running his mouth again on Twitter. Broadly, he is apparentlypolitics2017-10-7thursday night quick briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-5-thursday-night-quick-brief.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 2:16PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>No news of substance regarding North Korea today.<br />
</p><p>Howeverpolitics2017-10-5wednesday night quick briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-4-wednesday-night-quick-brief.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It's 1:36PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>Long day, so this will be a quick brief.<br />
</p><p>It's suggested bypolitics2017-10-4tuesday morning briefhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-3-tuesday-morning-brief.html
<p>Good morning.<br />
</p><p>It is 11:50 PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>The Trump administration has officials trying to smooth over differepolitics2017-10-3tuesday evening brief oct 3http://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-3-tuesday-evening-brief-oct-3.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 1:19PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>US Pacific Command is doing short range defense exercises with South Kpolitics2017-10-3monday morning brief oct 2http://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-2-monday-morning-brief-oct-2.html
<p>Good morning.<br />
</p><p>It's midnight in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>More ripples in Twitterverse of Trump undercutting Tillerson. Hawks epolitics2017-10-2monday evening briefing oct 2http://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-2-monday-evening-briefing-oct-2.html
<p>Good evening.<br />
</p><p>It is 1:20PM in Pyongyang.<br />
</p><p>Reputable Sources<br />
</p><p>A report in Yonap (South Korean officiapolitics2017-10-2mass shootings gun controlhttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-2-mass-shootings-gun-control.html
<p>The US - my country - needs to address its gun death situation. In 2017, there have been roughly one "mass shooting" every day of the yeapolitics2017-10-2sunday breihttp://pnathan.com/blog/politics/2017-10-1-sunday-brei.html
<p>Apologies for the lack of morning briefing. Familial duties summoned my attention. Let's see if any change in the situation has presentepolitics2017-10-1Journey Of A New SWEhttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2017-09-26-Journey-Of-A-New-SWE.html
<p>It's been a decade since I worked in a taco joint with a BS in comp sci because I was clueless about job hunting. </p><blockquote><p>@shecoding and software2017-09-26Meditations on Arthttp://pnathan.com/blog/painting/2017-08-09-Meditations-on-Art.html
<p>I think I had better write down some thoughts about painting and visual art. I'm imagining that you, dear reader, are sitting at my dinnepainting2017-08-09Mechanism of Sanctificationhttp://pnathan.com/blog/theology/2017-06-17-Mechanism-of-Sanctification.html
<p>What is on my mind tonight is the totality of the transformation effected by Jesus' salvific action on the individual. </p><p>Not simply theology2017-06-17Languages As Toolshttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2016-07-19-Languages-As-Tools.html
<p>More programming language-as-tool ruminations; this time swiped and improved from a Twitter rant I went on in June. </p><p>I'm experimentcoding and software2016-07-19Machine Interoperabilityhttp://pnathan.com/blog/concepts/2016-07-15-Machine-Interoperability.html
<p>I've become persuaded that typical modern approaches to automated interop are deeply flawed. </p><p>Generally the current <em>thing</em> concepts2016-07-15Meditations on Tech Stackshttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2016-06-04-Meditations-on-Tech-Stacks.html
<p>Technical stacks are one of the most controversial things in software development. This is because they relate directly to the capabilitycoding and software2016-06-04Unavailable Pigmentshttp://pnathan.com/blog/painting/2016-05-23-Unavailable-Pigments.html
<p>One of the most interesting bits of trivia I've learned while picking up painting is that certain pigments are unavailable today or rapidpainting2016-05-23NutureShock Noteshttp://pnathan.com/blog/reviews/2016-05-22-NutureShock-Notes.html
<p><em>NutureShock - New Thinking About Children</em> is the tagline. Unfortunately, most of it doesn't seem to <em>new</em> so much as a reviews2016-05-22Site Migration Againhttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2016-05-22-Site-Migration-Again.html
<p>After a <em>very exciting</em> migration off of Digital Ocean a few months ago, I've shifted hosting providers to Amazon and reworked thecoding and software2016-05-22subtleties of statehttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2015-08-06-subtleties-of-state.html
<p>I found a type error in the database system I am implementing. The type error only is thrown after a certain number of pages are added tocoding and software2015-08-06cybernetics and todayhttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2015-07-31-cybernetics-and-today.html
<p>Regulation, resilience, resistance - can the system you control handle all of these? How do you design your software system to encompass coding and software2015-07-31reinitialize the sitehttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2015-07-22-reinitialize-the-site.html
<p>Migrating pnathan.com and (in time) my blog over to Jekyll. </p>coding and software2015-07-22Suppose you have a clusterhttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2012-11-09-Suppose-you-have-a-cluster.html
<p>And suppose you have many services on this cluster… you have n! problems. </p><p>Each service is likely to interrelate with other servicecoding and software2012-11-09Protocols and librarieshttp://pnathan.com/blog/coding-and-software/2012-05-12-Protocols-and-libraries.html
<p>I am thinking about building a protocol for finance libraries; this protocol needs to wrap some other libraries and provide a consistent coding and software2012-05-12